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I wanted to have this perfect letter written out to you – this concoction of love and inspiration and truth all mixed into one – words you would treasure for a lifetime. Yet, looking into your beautiful eyes and knowing your lovely hearts on this very first day of being teenagers, I’m at a loss. […]

Today was our first day of school for the year. We’ve got first, second, fourth, sixth, and seventh grades going on at out home. And I’m barely able to believe the words in the previous sentence are true. I find it this incredibly beautiful mixture of happy-sad. Oh, I am so grateful for a God […]

What words could I express to my daughter on her eighth birthday? Oh, sweet Love, there are no words to truly convey all that I long for you to know. But with happy tears streaming down (because how is it possible that it’s been eight years already!?) I humbly scratch out a smidgen of my […]

Half a dozen years ago we held this beauty for the first time. Who knew that our love could multiply so much that day after celebrating the years of marriage & love & time & faithfulness!? But just after the sun shone brightly that June morning our precious Ariya Faith was born. And this sweet […]

It’s been fifteen years with this man I love, and he just keeps stealing my heart. Oh, I love him and our life together – the everyday, ordinary, digging in the dirt together moments, & the wonder of watching our children getting older and us getting older too. I love you, Gabe – your heart, […]

So we’ve come to the end of our school year – with only two weeks left. And it seems like forever ago and just yesterday when I sat with swollen belly researching homeschool curriculum. I was pregnant with baby number five and the oldest were preschool age. That first year I had two four-year-olds, a […]

We’ve started a whole new year of homeschooling. Here’s a bit of my mind swirling – and a glimpse into what we’ll be using this year. Want to see? My eyes look back and marvel at the trail behind. Wondering when these half a dozen kids grew all lanky. How could I blink and miss […]

Here we are with only six weeks left of our homeschool year, and I am now just sitting down to let you all now how it is going for my precious second graders. {We’re not even going to think about the fact that this also means that in six weeks I will technically have two […]

I can hardly believe that school time is here!! While it still feels to me like the middle of summer– I can’t help but notice the big yellow school-bus that’s made its way down our street and around the corner as the driver practices his route for the upcoming school-year (which started today for some […]